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StoneGloves wrote:
"Not sure what nomenclature you are suggesting though"

Hlaw !

Hlaw? Is that the suggested name? Could catch on I suppose. "Over to the west you can just make out the Hlaw of Silbury..."

No - that's what the hills used to be called.

That's the Old English spelling - or the way it's rendered nowadays. Other versions, seen in placenames particularly, are Law, Lowe and Howe. 'Lowenbrau' - Round hills brewery (perhaps). Sometimes the hills have two names, a local one and an official one. Our hill in Bolton - entirely geological though it has a barrow on its flank - is both known as Sugarloaf Hill, to Boltonians, and Brown Lowe, to Ordnance Survey.

Blakey, the name, still associates with the On The Buses inspector, for me.